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Welsh rugby union and rugby league player
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Biography
Introduction
Granville James is a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, and 1950s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Newbridge RFC, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Hunslet, as a Loose forward/Lock, i.e. number 13, during the era of contested scrums.
Rugby union club career
Four players from Newbridge RFC left to play rugby league for the 1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season, they were; Tommy Harris to Hull, Bill Hopkins to Hull, Granville James to Hunslet, and Glyn Meredith to Wakefield Trinity.
International honours
Granville James won 5 caps for Wales (RL) in 1950–1953 while at Hunslet.